NaPoWriMo Day 1: Numbers game

I'm following NaPoWriMo on napowrimo.net. The challenge is to write a poem a day in April. 

Today is actually day 3, but I discovered this late (story of my life), so I'm catching up this weekend!

This is the prompt for the April 1 poem: 

Write a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life – one that typically isn’t done all that often, or only in specific circumstances. For example, bowling or shopping for socks or shoveling snow or teaching a child to tie its shoes. 

A numbers game

With a seven

The dice is thrown;

Eleven?

It’s cheating me

Six grins

Its lucky spots at me;

Nine

Tries to take what’s mine

Three slides

Things into the diagonal;

Four

Comes calling me square

Eight fights

Seeking out infinity;

Five

Gives me a helping hand

Two is restless

For its eternal soulmate;

Then one

For this is who I am.

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, April 3, 2020